Ken Teh wrote: > I asked a question earlier about wikis and your recommendations for > wikis. After more reading and discussion, it seems to me that a wiki > may not be quite what we are after. > > Essentially, what we need is some sort of groupware for a > collaboration that > is just beginning to get off the ground. I gather from the collaboration > that what they want is a web front-end to a central repository when > they can > archive stuff like meeting notes, detector design drawings, etc., over > the > lifetime of the project. After hearing your recommendations, I tried > out > mediawiki. It's my impression that wikis are more suitable for on-going > discussions of topics. > > It's been suggested to me that a CMS may be more appropriate. So, once > again, I asked for your recommendations and advice. A brief > comparison of > the two --- wiki versus cms --- and your recommendation for a cms system. > > Thanks! Ken > > Visit the OpenSourceCMS site & pick you poison, there are some great tips there & you can demo the requirements, look and feel you desire... there are so many CMS/Wiki tools. Doing some research about the CMS maintenance, dependencies, dbases, revision control, apache config and authentication based on your expertise are critical to site once it becomes live & providing an intuitive environment for user collaboration. If you need Advanced features like Email integration (ala MS-Exchange/Lotus Notes), then there are some proprietary options you may want to look at... Table of Windows software Replacements in Linux - (Find) "Email / PIM / Groupware server" http://www.demosoftware.net/#5 OpenSourceCMS - CMS Ratings - Demo CMS & Wikis http://www.opensourcecms.com/ I have been playing around with e107 & like it for it's style & ease of use, though it really depends on you needs. Some are setup for development, general office intranet, or education environments. Good Luck. -Art@JAX --- CMS Portal -Wiki - Blog - Project/RevisionControl - Groupware - Calendar - Gallery--- OpenSourceCMS - e107 - http://e107.org http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133 OpenSourceCMS - GuppY - Lite CMS http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=489 Silva - http://www.infrae.com/products/silva/silva_features OpenSourceCMS - CMS Made Simple - http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=452 MoinMoin - http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ OpenSourceCMS - Plone - http://plone.org/ http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=246 OpenSourceCMS - Drupal - http://drupal.org/ http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=132 OpenSourceCMS - Joomla - http://www.joomla.org/ http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2097 TYPO3 CMS - http://typo3.org/ WordPress Blog+ - http://wordpress.org/ AColab - Based on ATutor http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=498 OpenSourceCMS - ATutor - EDU http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=373 Trac & SVN on RHEL4 http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracOnRhel4 http://websvn.tigris.org/ http://buildix.thoughtworks.com/ GForge CDE Collaborative Development Environment - http://gforge.org/ eGroupware - http://www.egroupware.org/ Tutos - http://www.tutos.org --- Calendar --- WebCalendar - https://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar/ --- Gallery --- Coppermine Photo Gallery http://coppermine-gallery.net/index.php
